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“Have you ever seen your mother foam at the mouth?”

This rhetorical question became the challenge of the day my children wholeheartedly took.

When I questioned this scheme Gabe responded, “You taught me to aim high mom.”

The rest of afternoon was filled with scream fest 2017(at least my kids are creative) and a surprise attack spray bottle game. This game consisted of trying to catch someone off guard and spray them in the face, while of course squealing in delight. No one could leave a room for fear of ambush.

I pray this over you and myself.

Colossians 1:11 (in quotations)

I pray: “being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience” to carry out the plans He created for you before your birth. May your patience and endurance run deeper and stronger than your to do list so that you might experience God’s joy in your everyday life. Help us to rest in your joy in all the moments of our lives. Thank You, Amen.

Heal our Nation

Lord Jesus, there is none higher or more glorious. You are our sovereign God. As a nation we humble ourselves before the Lord. Pour out Your, healing. We ask for the forgiveness of the sins of this nation: murder of the innocent, worship of money and power, self-will and indulgence. Please forgive us, we are undeserving of Your grace and mercy but beg for it anyway. Save this nation for the sake of the remnant and we will worship You, with new hearts a lit with a passion to bring You Joy our Lord and Master. We pull down and cast out entitlement, indulgence, power, money-lust and coveting in Jesus name. We pour over our nation a new desire for right standing with God a burning commitment for prayer for revival. Drench us in Your mercy as we seek Your face. Heal us; bind up our wounds by the power of the blood of Jesus, Amen.

Please be in agreement with and pass this on to other prayer warriors. The Lord’s word says that if we humble ourselves, He will heal our nation. Please join me in humbling ourselves. Thank you.

James 5:16 (AMP)

Therefore, confess your sins to one another [your false steps, your offenses], and pray for one another, that you may be healed and restored. The heartfelt and persistent prayer of a righteous man (believer) can accomplish much [when put into action and made effective by God—it is dynamic and can have tremendous power].

Why pray?

The short answer is: To release the power of heaven onto earth.

If you are at all honest with yourself, then you acknowledge that you need a jump start in your prayer life. I know I do.

I recently had a bizarre encounter with a friend who had become an ordained minister over a year ago. His conversion story is quite the dramatic one. Somewhere in his wandering he picked-up the pesky concept that it is an insult to God to pray for what we need. He believes that, 2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. When I called him to pray. He then went on to tell me that people that pray and ask for release from sin, and help in their daily life, were essentially saying that they didn’t believe God had made them new. I asked him how giving up praying was going and he had a horrific litany of woes. Here’s the thing, he still has a ministry he is leading and reads the bible a minimum of an hour a day. What had he stopped doing when his life took the major downward spiral? He gave up prayer. He said that he spoke scripture over his life (estimating more than 2 hours a day), but never actually talked to God personally.

Believe that you have the right, obligation and privilege to pray. Walk boldly into the throne room. Wait expectantly upon the Lord.

Hebrews 4:16 (NKJV) Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

My favorite part of prayer time is the shut-up time. When we pray with God, a dialogue not a monologue. Our prayers are magnified. When we listen to what the maker of the Universe feels that we need to be concerned about and pray about, all of a sudden there is vast movement in the atmosphere. Lives are transformed and not just our own. Ask the Lord who He wants you to pray for. I have discovered more often than not, it’s not me.

Pray: Lord Jesus magnify my prayer life. I come to you and ask for mercy and grace. Reveal to me my heart, help me to know how to pray. Let your love engulf me so that I might rest in your strength. Reveal to me your plans for my life so that I might walk in obedience. I proclaim and declare my obedience to Christ. Give me the next step and I will take it. Thank you, Jesus for Your presence in my life. I wait expectantly for your still small voice. I acknowledge you in all things and lay down myself so that I might hear from you. Who would you have me pray for today? In Jesus mighty name I pray amen.

God moves in the time between the strike of a question mark and the capitalization of the next sentence in the story of our lives.
When I ask God a question, He often moves in ways far beyond my understanding. Okay so when I say often, I mean always.
It is 2 ½ years ago today when I asked the Lord for someone to disciple me. I was very specific in my request to the Lord. I needed someone who was farther along in their journey with Christ in the gifting of intercession or prayer. When asking God for help we may think that we know what we need or even more laughable we may think we know what we will get. He will always give exceedingly, abundantly more than we can ask or think.

My petition for a disciple was no exception to the rule of God’s faithfulness and overabundance of love. It was an awkward moment calling a woman that lives across the country, whom I had never met to ask her to be my disciple. She was strangely unfazed by this unexpected phone call. We talked about where I was at in my walk and she in her walk and then we prayed. We have never stopped praying sometimes we pray daily, hourly or sometimes not for weeks.
What we never expected was that two hearts in agreement in prayer under the will of God can transform not only the heart of the person being discipled but the disciple herself. The ripple cast out by our faithful prayers, reached places we would never have dared fathom. There are times during these 2 ½ years where she held me up but just as many times when I held her up. I am eternally grateful that our Great and Glorious God hears not only the words of our prayers but our hearts as well. He knew that I needed a disciple, and whom to give me and he knew that my disciple needed me, our union has been a beautiful blessing in my life. Never think that the quest to come alongside a fellow established our budding Christian is not worth the time or effort.
What Christ grants you when you are in obedience to His Word cannot be measured. Matthew 28:18-20 requires obedience, it is a call to discipleship. But listen to the overflowing God at the end of this scripture, His promises are exceedingly above what we could ask or think. “And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. ”
Pray: Lord Jesus help me to not be afraid to ask for someone to be brought into my life to disciple or to be under discipleship with. You are faithful to give us what we need and not what we ask for and for that we are eternally grateful. Hear our hearts Lord even when our words fall short. Provide for us in only the way the great Jehovah-Jireh can. We praise you God. Thank you, Jesus Amen.

The ER nurse turned to my husband and said “You are her Savior” as my husband held my youngest daughter down, while they jabbed at her with the second attempt at an IV. Her pathetic screams easily penetrated the hallway where I waited with my sons. He quickly replied, “No, I am not her Savior, Jesus Christ is but I will be His stand in”.

My God has provided me with such a wonderful earthly father to my children. He is a great ‘stand in’ or representation of Christ to my children. They experience their father’s sacrifice and love in his daily interactions with them.

John provides stability, a sense of self, protection and fierce love to our children. Just as Christ does. This weekend John was with me every moment as we woke up our youngest daughter, every two hours to get two ounces of fluid down her with a syringe. I could not love John more than I do when I see his self- sacrifice for our children. He provides for them as their father what I cannot and I am eternally grateful. He gives them an understanding of what a father’s love is, and this understanding frees them to run into the arms of Christ without reservations of the consequence.

In prayer for a friend’s daughter that she might experience stability I received a gift far greater than the prayer I was providing her. I received a greater revelation of what my identity as God’s daughter does for me, now on this earth. You cannot fully integrate a sense of peace and stability into your life until you accept and acknowledge that you are Christ’s daughter or son. In prayer I began to realize that my understanding of my identity was not fully developed. God is faithful to provide what we need, when we humble ourselves and ask for help in prayer.

Prayer: I pray for stability. For Christ’s love to surround me and penetrate to the depths of my understanding of self. Provide for Me a cocoon of protection so that you might transform my life of doubt into a triumph of obedience. Provide stability not as the world provides it but as You do My conquering, Savior. Thank you, Jesus Amen.

As you practice walking, you only get more controlled with your falling. Walking should never be taken for granted. There is a trust inherently needed to move.

We have ‘right thinking’ when we suppose that it’s not safe to move, if we do so by our own power.

Lord Jesus we ask that the Word become flesh to us, so that we might live out- Ephesians 1:17-23

I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may grant us a spirit of wisdom and of revelation [that gives us a deep and personal and intimate insight] into the true knowledge of Him [for we know the Father through the Son]. And [I pray] that the eyes of our hearts [the very center and core of our beings] may be enlightened [flooded with light by the Holy Spirit], so that we will know and cherish the hope [the divine guarantee, the confident expectation] to which He has called us, the riches of His glorious inheritance in the saints (God’s people),and [so that we will begin to know] what the immeasurable and unlimited and surpassing greatness of His [active, spiritual] power is in uswho believe. These are in accordance with the working of His mighty strength,which He produced in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His own right hand in the heavenly places,far above all rule and authority and power and dominion [whether angelic or human], and [far above] every name that is named [above every title that can be conferred], not only in this age and world but also in the one to come.And He put all things [in every realm] in subjection under Christ’s feet, and appointed Him as [supreme and authoritative] head over all things in the church,which is His body, the fullness of Him who fills and completes all things in all [believers].

(modified from the Amplified version to create a prayer for the church)

Lord Jesus hear our prayer fill us with your wisdom and knowledge so that we might walk the walk you have laid out for us. Grant us the ability to trust in the Lord with all our hearts. So that we might walk where we thought it impossible. All things are possible with you Christ. Thank you, Jesus Amen.

A flame does not create a shadow. Light is incapable of tolerating darkness it only knows how to dispel it. John 8:12 Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” (NKJV). We cannot tolerate a shadow of a doubt.

There’s nothing like doubt to crush faith. It never starts out as a crushing pain but more as a subtle inkling. A minor itch of the mind that begs for scratching. The itching of the deviant named ‘doubt’ is what starts that crack in our shield of faith. Hindering our ability to grab a hold of the promises of God. Casting out doubt is a daily necessity. We must diligently tend to this chore.

Pray: Lord Jesus I cast out doubt in Your precious name and authority. Let me live in your boldness of faith, so that I might reach out and grab hold of the lost. Establish within me Your dwelling place, a tower of refuge from which to draw strength. Grant me wave after wave of Your love so that I might sit in the stillness of Your truth and rest. Thank you, Jesus. Amen.